[Nat (Rugby_Aholic)]

Re: Fev Implosion Due?? : Mon Jun 30, 2014 10:48 pm  

No problems? You owed the tax man before he came along and picked up the bill. Dont have that bail out again, All of a sudden you have an inflated wage bill and and more facilities to maintain. I would imagine Hay will be on a few quid. Can see trouble on the horizon. I hope not, I hope you can go back to the club you were, but I cant see this ending well.

Re: Fev Implosion Due?? : Mon Jun 30, 2014 10:52 pm  

gingdong wrote:

Very sorry to disappoint you old lad but we dont want your sympathies and there will be no problem at Rovers. The man hasnt given us that much cash and we had topped the league for 2 years before he came. Its as all got nipped in the bud by our chairman before it got too far, we will be fine and im convinced will play much better from now to the seasons end

Hope thats the case gd, get back to the good work being done previously

Re: Fev Implosion Due?? : Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:03 am  

gingdong wrote:

Very sorry to disappoint you old lad but we dont want your sympathies and there will be no problem at Rovers. The man hasnt given us that much cash and we had topped the league for 2 years before he came. Its as all got nipped in the bud by our chairman before it got too far, we will be fine and im convinced will play much better from now to the seasons end

Your statement and the club statement seem to differ on the money side?

Re: Fev Implosion Due?? : Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:40 am  

halifaxjohn wrote:

Your statement and the club statement seem to differ on the money side?

I thought gingdong's statement was better put together than the club one though.

Re: Fev Implosion Due?? : Tue Jul 01, 2014 7:16 am  

Greg Florimos Boots wrote:

I thought gingdong's statement was better put together than the club one though.

That may be so but there is a big variance on the money issue.

[Nat (Rugby_Aholic)]

Re: Fev Implosion Due?? : Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:44 am  

Best post I have seen on the topic over on the Featherstone TotalRL forum :-

TheTerminator Posted Today, 09:17 AM
It was clear that this man was a dodgy customer right from the beginning, and his agenda was always to push Mark Campbell into the background with a view to gaining sole control of the club.

Look at his track record in the game - turfed out by at least three or four clubs before he was allowed to become too closely involved. He even attempted to 'invest' in Blackburn Rovers, but was snubbed by them as he was insisting that any money forwarded would be repayable at a high rate of interest. Given the nature of his business - attracting investors and promising them a profitable return for their contributions, isn't it obvious what his plan was for Featherstone Rovers? Talk of 'anonymous' investors - who have turned out to be dotted up and down the country in exotic locations such as Grimsby, should have set alarm bells ringing at the highest volume possible.

All this from a guy who - according to Company House, has barely got a penny to his name and owns a business classified as a 'High Risk' by the city.

In my opinion, his plan WAS to get Rovers into Super League. The next stage of his plan was probably to fleece the club of the millions in extra income it would have gained in order to provide his 'investors' (and himself - via kick-backs) with a weighty return on their contributions. Lots of people have been asking why, if he's so loaded, was he so desperate to finish in the lucrative second league position this season? Easy - he needed the 500k reward to pay his investors their first return. Desperation set in when league position was jeopardised by poor recruitment and staff appointments - hence the dramatic mid-season turnaround in club policy.

He'd have probably gotten away with his scheme if he wasn't for his own ego and obnoxious personality. The guy just couldn't keep his mouth shut.

I firmly believe that it will become apparent - very soon, that he hasn't actually invested anything in Featherstone Rovers. However, he's been investing other people's money with the promise of a return. Whether it's his problem or Featherstone Rovers' when those people come calling for their money back will be interesting.
Edited by TheTerminator, Today, 09:24 AM.

Re: Fev Implosion Due?? : Tue Jul 01, 2014 11:40 am  

That last post is probably a good summing up of what has gone on, I don't know the poster involved but it makes sense from what a lot of the hear-say going about has been like.

A few years ago, Sir Alan Stanford rocked up at Lords Cricket Ground in his Helicopter, promised Millions of dollars of investment, was welcomed in by many. and that all ended in tears and the last I heard was he'd been arrested by the FBI for something. Not sure what came of it. But is investment into cricket came to a sudden end.

Anyway, about the same time, Mike Stephenson wrote in his League Express column that in Rugby League we should be wary, as we'd likely fall into the same trap. If someone turned up at a clubs gate with a big fat chequebook, they'd be welcomed in without anyone thinking of the consequnces. Its happened at Oldham (forget the guys name but he was heavily bankrolling them, when he had a do with someone took his bat and ball home and 5 players contracts somehow got moved to Barrow, 2 bobs and that Bald winger who was like **** off a stick and kicked goals were two of them). We've seen Des Johnson up at Barrow and what happened there. Omar Khan and Friends at Bradford, Neil Hudgell at Hull KR has made noises about how much he invests and if he'll continue to do so long term, Huddersfield bankrolled by an old man who's children have little interest in the club. List goes on, I haven't even mentioned the doctor....

Fact is, Rugby League is chasing something that is unattainable. and basically, is a great big black hole to pour money into. if the salary cap was raised, and players were paid more, would that make them any better? or would they simply eat somewhere more expensive than Nandos?

From an outside view, Fev seemed to be doing alright, decent enough results on the pitch. A monumental effort by a dedicated bunch of volunteers to rebuild the stand that came from Scarborough, money that was invested used to build the Centre of Excellence which will provide good training facilities for the club for years to come. It seemed a good way to be going. Now Feisal's got on his Bike and moved on, who knows what will happen next?

And as for Mr Probiz himself, has Rugby League seen the last of him?

Re: Fev Implosion Due?? : Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:04 pm  

Nat (Rugby_Aholic) wrote:

Best post I have seen on the topic over on the Featherstone TotalRL forum :-

Yeah - it was a great post.

Re: Fev Implosion Due?? : Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:46 pm  

halifaxjohn wrote:

Your statement and the club statement seem to differ on the money side?

The club statement was written by him and put out as he wrote it apparently so people would know who it came from. He has invested very little, its been nipped in the bud in time and we will be better on the pitch now im sure,

Re: Fev Implosion Due?? : Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:58 pm  

As the title of this thread states. Implosion due.

How will you honour the full time contracts that have already been given out this year, you are part time now and already operating a increases cap of £400k. Even coming in second is not going to bridge the gap in finances to cover the full time wages next year, some will be full time and some part time, that will cause resentment in the team and will still only train part time. Sooner or later the fan is getting peppered in the brown smelly stuff.